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| author | Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> | 2019-07-02 01:32:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com> | 2019-07-08 12:03:28 +0100 |
| commit | 080f080c3bc1e87da4affdce28a01b1a87a60364 (patch) | |
| tree | 413bf296662cc4e0ed93d103ffb5aa0ca11b200c /NEWS | |
| parent | c161357d5d96f32144f4b63ee6b06049c0cc0a09 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-080f080c3bc1e87da4affdce28a01b1a87a60364.tar.gz | |
netdev-dpdk: Enable tx-retries-max config.
vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against
dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue
size for an interface, but on the other hand when a system
is fully loaded those extra cycles retrying could mean
packets are dropped elsewhere.
Up to now max vhost tx retries have been hardcoded, which meant
no tuning and no way to disable for debugging to see if extra
cycles spent retrying resulted in rx drops on some other
interface.
Add an option to change the max retries, with a value of
0 effectively disabling vhost tx retries.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Post-v2.11.0 * OVS validated with DPDK 18.11.2 which is the new minimal supported version. * DPDK 18.11.1 and lower is no longer supported. + * New option 'tx-retries-max' to set the maximum amount of vhost tx + retries that can be made. - OpenFlow: * All features required by OpenFlow 1.5 are now implemented, so ovs-vswitchd now enables OpenFlow 1.5 by default (in addition to |